Favourtie French Melodies-In creating these dozen arrangements I am unashamedly cherry-picking from a long and rich seam of French music. I feel confident that younger players and those relatively new to the cello will enjoy my selection. Forgive my tongue-in-cheek title for the book French Baguettelles (I'm half French so I don't feel too guilty!) for the music herein has more than a hint of garlic about it. Although there are certainly serious overtones to one or two pieces there is a healthy dollop of silliness to lighten the mood. Apart from Sur la Pont d'Avignon which was reportedly written in the 15th century Frère Jacques which was a popular 18th century song and Tambourin which wasin all probability also written in the 18th century (Gossec did however live well into the 19th century) all of the pieces come from composers who lived in the Romantic period. Ravel and Debussy were of course known for their impressionistic colours though for the most part it is the accompaniments which reveal this characteristic most fully. I have endeavoured to keep the piano parts playable by mere mortals conscious of the fact that cello teachers may not possess a virtuosic piano facility but may nevertheless wish to turn their hand to accompanying pupils for concerts festivals exams etc. Many of the pieces were originally written for the piano either in its solo capacity (Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte Chabrier's Idylle Satie's Gymnopedie 1 Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin) or in duet form (Fauré's Berceuse from 'Dolly Suite'). Three orchestral pieces Bizet's L'Arlésienne Offenbach's Can-Can and Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre lend a welcome dramatic overtone to the book while Franck's exquisite Panis Angelicus originally conceived as a choral piece rounds off the selection admirably. In the main it is the cello's capacity for lyricism that has steered my choice of music so really open up your sound and enjoy yourself with these ageless melodies.I wish you bonne chance!Baguette: a thin loaf of

für Violoncello und Klavier-With this composition Editio Baerenreiter Praha launched the Complete Critical Edition of Works by Miloslav Kabelac a prominent Czech composer who lived from 1908 to 1979. The editor of this complete edition is a musicologist and a noted expert on Kabelac's work Dr. Zdenek Nouza. The outline of the edition is as follows: I. Orchestral and Concert compositions II. compositions for solo Voice or a Chorus with Orchestra or Instrumental Ensemble III. songs with Piano Choruses Children's Choruses IV. Chamber compositions V. compositions for Piano and Organ.Sonata Op.9 for Cello and Piano which came into existence betweenyears 1941-42 has never been published before. Therefore as part of the Complete Edition this composition appears in print for the first time. Its edition is based on an authograph present in the Museum of Czech Music in Prague. The prominent Czech cello player Daniel Veis who also premiered the complete four-movement version has revised the cello part of this edition.